I've been running from ~sparc on my Ultra5 for some time now and it's doing quite well. A couple days ago, some gnome stuff got updated and now the emerge fails on gst-plugins. The emerge for ~x86 does just fine so I suspect the sparc package. Anyway, here is the emerge output in case anyone is interested:

I am talking off my ass, but seems like the patch is trying to make a symlink and accessing something outside its sandbox -- packages being emerged are not supposed to write outside of their build directory in /var/tmp/portage_________________"I'm just very selective about the reality I choose to accept." -- Calvin

I took a look at that bug report and decided to try the SANDBOX_DISABLED="1" thing and it did the job. It fixed the problem for ORBit too. Question now is: what kind of future grief can I expect as a result of this?

I've got the same problem with gst-plugins 0.6.3. If it's any help, I installed from GRP (Pentium 3, 20030911) and am doing my first "emerge -u world" after installing GNOME from the binary packages. My use flags: